A man shows a new 10 Bolivar bank note after withdrawing it from a cash machine in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 1, 2021. A new currency with six fewer zeros debuts Friday in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world’s worst inflation. The new currency tops out at 100 bolivars, a little less than $25 until inflation starts to eat away at that as well. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
A fisherman competes in the national championship for underwater fishing of red lionfish, at Los Caracolitos beach, in Higuerote, southeast of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, October 2, 2021. The presence of the invasive Indo-Pacific red lionfish along areas of the Venezuelan coast, where it has no natural predators, is a threat to native species. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
Produce vendors wait for customers at a market in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 1, 2021. A new currency with six fewer zeros debuts today in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world’s worst inflation. The new currency tops out at 100 bolivars, a little less than $25 until inflation starts to eat away at that as well. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
U.S. dollar bills, belonging to a street vendor, sit atop cigarettes for sale in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 1, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Residents walk past mannequins displaying women’s clothes for sale in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 1, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Rafael Rojas sell avocados and garlic on a street in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 1, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
A veterinarian writes a recipe during a free care day organized by Misión Nevado, in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic in a square west of the city in Caracas, Venezuela on October 3, 2021. (Photo by Javier Campos/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
People who are believed to be in a trance with the spirits of Indian warriors, take part in a spiritual ceremony believed to promote good health during the annual religious festival of the goddess Maria Lionza, in the low-income neighborhood of Petare, in Caracas, Venezuela, October 12, 2021. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)
Followers of Indigenous goddess Maria Lionza smoke tobacco during a ceremony on Indigenous Resistance Day, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, October 12, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Followers of Maria Lionza’s cult practice a ritual at Sorte Mountain in Venezuela’s Yaracuy state, early Tuesday, October 12, 2021, one year after the annual pilgrimage was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Along with Santeria, Venezuela is home to other folk religions, such as the sect surrounding the Indian goddess Maria Lionza, an indigenous woman who according to tradition was born on Sorte Mountain and whose cult has spread to Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Central America. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
A pedestrians walks past a graffiti asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, in Caracas, Venezuela. Saturday, October 16, 2021. Saab, a top fugitive close to Venezuela’s socialist government has been put on a plane from Cape Verde to the U.S. to face money laundering charges, a senior U.S. official confirmed Saturday. 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Sebastian, 7, attends math class alone on the first day back to in-person school since the start of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions at the Andres Bello municipal school in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, October 25, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Contestants perform at the start of Mister Handsome Venezuela, a male beauty pageant in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, October 30, 2021. The pageant took place Saturday after last year’s edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
A young man performs a wheelie on his bicycle during a stunt show in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, October 31, 2021. (Photo by Pedro Ramses Mattey/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A child using a face shiled and accompanied by his mother, queues to be inoculated with CoronaVac, a vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, at a vaccination centre in Caracas on November 9, 2021. Health Minister Carlos Alvarado assured that 3.5 million children aged between 2 and 11 will be vaccinated “progressively” in the country of 30 million inhabitants. (Photo by Yuri Cortez/AFP Photo)
Members of the National Orchestra System gather to try and break a Guinness World Record for most instruments used in a piece of music, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, November 13, 2021. The musicians, all connected with the country’s network of youth orchestras, will play a 12-minute Tchaikovsky piece at a military base under the watchful eyes of hundreds of independent supervisors tasked with verifying that more than 8,097 instruments are played at the same time. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Members of the National Orchestra System raise their instruments after they played a 12-minute Piotr’s Slavic March Ilich Tchaikovsky to try and break a Guinness World Record, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, November 13, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Members of the National Orchestra System gather to try and break a Guinness World Record for most instruments used in a piece of music, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, November 13, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)
